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Ambrose Wood returns to New York portrait of a colorful reunion
Lardner recalls Ambrose Wood and family escapades from Buenos Aires to Broadway outlining Ambrose as a roguish, charming figure. The narrator describes guiding Ambrose and Chita through a welcome home tour while dodging old temptations and misadventures in South America and New York nightlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corrugated Trust
Amalgamated Window Washers’ Union
Old Hickory
Robert
Torchy
Ambrose the Ambler
South America
Grinnin
Ambrose Wood
Ferdy
Marjorie Ellins
Mr. Robert
Ellinses
Ambrose
Volstead
Amby
Bond
Brother Ferdie
Staten Island
Upper Broadway
New York
Buenos Ayres
Glancin
Parvo
Ellins
Buenos Aires
el Placida
Placida
Senor Alvarado
McNutt
Chita
Alvarado
el Placido
Papa
Scout
Broadway